St. Paul daily globe., 1887-10-02
NYMANovER IN CHICAGO.

Evert Nymanover, the fawn-eyed So
cialist, who is EN- route to Europe to in
terview Boulanger and Bismarck, has
got as far as Chicago, and has actually
succeeded in interviewing the con-
demned anarchists. Mark Twain, at
the grave of Adam, never dis
played such emotion as did the ver-
satile Evert when he stood face to face
with ''the beautiful young Spies" He
writes of the interviews as follows:
NYMANOvER IN CHICAGO.
1t has been said by the author of famous
book on travels CMr Charles Dudley Warner)
that killing is the most popular thing man
ing received its fullest illustration in the per-
sons of the seven death-sentenced anarchists
OF Chicago: These men are subjected to the
most mos fro 9bs PoPGay Of the and all
Perhaps no newspaper of the whole civilized
world has been published which has not re-
ferred in some way or other to these men;
and il Chicago, at the Jail, no day passes
not talked about and instantly published
And this universal notoriety is SO much the
more to be wondered at, as these men are
only indirectly connected with the killing of
ltors-and the day saw the men there were
fully 1O0-gaze with some sort of paralyZed
wondermeDt at the imprisoned men-much
in the same fashion as the people, especially
the country people, contemplate the naked
statuary at the Minneapolis Exposition. The
following letter from the first deputy sheriff
of Cook county, Ill, gave me admittance to
the jail. (My cOuntryman, Sheriff Mattson,
was not in Chicago, being absent to st. Lonis
for few days.:
Conrad Fotz, ESQ.,: The bearer is newspa-
per man from Minneapolis and comes with
letters from the governor and mayor up
there. Try and fix him up and oblige yours,
etc., GLEASON
With this letter in my pocket went TO the
Cook county Jail on Michigan street, and,
without any difficulty whatever, got in into
the crypt-like cell house, where the seven
condemned anarchists are awaiting either
the rope or the governors pardon. l was
there at about 10 o'clock in the forenoon Gt
was on Thursday, Sept. 29), but was only
allowed to remain two minutes in the jail I
felt as if electrified, when the old stout Ger
man jailer, touching one of my arms, said:
his CELL And unfortunately the other ones
were all locked up before had any chance
of even glancing at them. "Come again." the
jailer Esaid, lat half-past 3 o'clock in the
to see all of them'' 1 returned the same
afternoon ON time the jailer said and to my
pleasure met
BOTH PARSONS AND SPIES
and talked with them for about five minutes
/ introduced myself to Parsons, who stood
close up to the iron wires, as the ex-secretary
of the Minneapolis socialists, and said l felt
it as some sort of a duty to see him
and his comrades while in the city, He asked
me some questions about the editor of the
Labor Echo. of st. Paul, which questions,
however, could not answer, not knowing
personally the man. He further begged of
me to visit his wife and get thousand of
his issued circulars, lately addressed to "the
American workingmen;'' distribute them
among the different labor organizations of
Minneapolis and st. Paul, and especially SO
when the knights of Labor congress comes
off up there. / remarked that was on INV
way to Europe, to be absent for several
months and could not possibly do what he
asked me to even if l would so ever so much
to save his life. told him that although he
has few sympathizers in Minnesota he, new
ertheless, has good many upright Christian
friends and alluded to the famous sermon of
Rev. H. NJ. Simmons of last Sunday, held at
the first Univarian church of our city. I
told him my belief, that the church will take
up the question of their life or deAih and
pass an opinion from the saving standpoint
of Christianity, which teaches not to hate
even our bitterest enemies, and in this way
come the men to the rescue, be it even at the
eleventh hour. Just then the young, hand
some-looking
SPIES CAME UP
side by side to Parsons, ''Sp!esi I will in
troduee you to a gentleman here from Min
neapolis.'' Spies gave y his finger and, ll
this way, shook hands Nhh him. l felt so